Woman, dog rescued in Madison fire

Blaze leaves six tenants homeless

2:40 PM,
Nov. 19, 2012

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Two borough firefighters rescued a woman and her dog from a fire Saturday that gutted a Park Avenue apartment house and left six tenants homeless but uninjured, officials said.

Tenant Luis Pinzon, a retiree from the Madison Housing Authority, said that he and his wife, Beatriz, smelled smoke around 9:15 a.m., shuffled furniture around their first-floor apartment and then noticed smoke coming through the floorboards from the basement. Pinzon said he called 911 and fled with just the clothes on his back.

"All my furniture, my TV, computer, are in there," Pinzon said Saturday afternoon as he ...